Who thought these were good security questions? Only two of them are established objective facts that stand a chance of being the same when you come back the next time: your first musical instrument (still subject to poor memory) and your wedding rehearsal dinner location (if timesMarried == 1).

For added security we have added a feature to our website where you type random letters until the website locks you out, then have to call us to verify your identity.

Your business is important to us and we appreciate the opportunity you've given us to help meet your financial needs. However, our desire to increase security without increasing costs has prevented us from doing this. Have a nice day!

How rude, forgetting that apparently most of the world is divorced, or shortly will be... timseMarried >= 1

What I'm saying is that if timesMarried > 1 then you have multiple answers to the question (as asked). The safe variety would be the less idyllic sounding "where was your most recent wedding's rehearsal dinner held?"

How rude, forgetting that apparently most of the world is divorced, or shortly will be... timseMarried >= 1

What I'm saying is that if timesMarried > 1 then you have multiple answers to the question (as asked). The safe variety would be the less idyllic sounding "where was your most recent wedding's rehearsal dinner held?"

Unless the most recent changes between the time you sign up, and the time you need to retrieve your password...

I would say it would be safer to say your first wedding's rehearsal dinner.

My cousin being the absolute genius he is was forced to fill out a form on our internet banking site so that whenever our IPs changed the bank could ask us personal questions because we have a higher chance of not being who we say we are. Anyways, he decided to fill out all the questions with 1 for the first, 2 for the second and etc. Needless to say our DHCP IP from Telus expired. . . (we used to live in the same house btw).

How rude, forgetting that apparently most of the world is divorced, or shortly will be... timseMarried >= 1

What I'm saying is that if timesMarried > 1 then you have multiple answers to the question (as asked). The safe variety would be the less idyllic sounding "where was your most recent wedding's rehearsal dinner held?"

Depending on how frequently the divorces and remarriages happen, you might still be able to have multiple rehearsal dinners before your rent on the place runs out.

/Or at least if you go back to the same time for every wedding, you can be considered a "regular" and get a discount.

Well the whole reason they broke from the catholic church was that they wanted divorces, so I'm really not surprised...

"was my first instrument a sax, a saxaphone, or a saxamaphone?"

Err, you're confusing Protestantism, with the Church of England, which was founded by Henry VIII for that purpose.. and then further confusing Protestantism with Evangelicalism (which is a demographic within Protestantism). The CoE is a WTF in itself, claiming to be both Protestant and Catholic by some means.

Well the whole reason they broke from the catholic church was that they wanted divorces, so I'm really not surprised...

"was my first instrument a sax, a saxaphone, or a saxamaphone?"

Err, you're confusing Protestantism, with the Church of England, which was founded by Henry VIII for that purpose.. and then further confusing Protestantism with Evangelicalism (which is a demographic within Protestantism). The CoE is a WTF in itself, claiming to be both Protestant and Catholic by some means.

Hahaha, I know, I was just kidding around. But regardless of whether it was the only reason, the fact still remains that divorces are allowed and accepted in their religion, so it's really nothing to complain about.

My understanding was that maiden name is another way of saying birth name and does not necessarily mean that you were or were not married.

Besides, how many people's mothers make it through their entire life without once being married? Or if you choose not to change your last name then your current last name == your maiden name right?

Maybe I just don't get it, but to me that seems like a very reasonable question.

Since you get a choice of which question to answer, there's no need for every question to be valid for every person.If your mother never married, and you don't have any siblings, you can answer about your favorite candy.

That still doesn't make a "security" question based on public information a good choice. (Or one based on yourcurrent opinions which can easily change)